what would be the easiest thing to do...

[kakyoin]

I want to create a program that can save web pages
(just the *.html page, i don't want the pics & other stuff)
let's say

http://www.techimo.com/forum/t14888.html
to
http://www.techimo.com/forum/t15096.html

what's the easiest prog language to use?
is it possible to do this in c++?

I need this to create a personal library of web pages
(howtos, guide, etc)
I don't want to click a thousand pages...

[Praetorian]

I dont get it. You want to save web page to your hard disk or what? explain a bit more please.

[kakyoin]

yup, I want to save the web page to my hard drive

[Emc2]

basically, you want the code from all of the pages, so when you want to, you can just open the pages, w/o pics that take up space.

I see what you're saying in that respect.

HOW you're going to get the pages I don't understand. You want to archive TechIMO's threads on your computer? I've done that for my future references, but one by one, since that's all I've needed.

[dragonb]

there's programs that do this sort of thing. they are called spider programs.
But, they do it by following all the links on a page that you put in. So, I'm not sure if it could do exactly what you wanted with the sequential thread numbers.
But, they can be quite configurable.
I've used Teleport Pro in the past. Check the usual download sites out there, I think there's a crippleware version out there that can only do a certain number of files per project.
But, you can tell it to download the pictures or not, or whatever.
dragonb

[^hyd^]

You could probably do it in VB using the winsock control. Don't know much about winsock control myself tho, read a fair bit, but haven't really used it. As for C++, could possibly do the same here, but I don't know much VC++ and dunno where you'd start with console C++ either!! hehe

good luck! and ya, there's programs out there to do this already.

Could possibly even make the pages available offline thru IE and set it to update(synchronize) on a regular basis too. I think... but never tried this either...

cya!

[kakyoin]

thanks for the response!!
i'll try to find the spider program

[qball]

if you haven't found an answer yet, java does this very simply, see:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutor...eadingURL.html